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Assessing the Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Systems during Extreme Weather Conditions
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Recent extreme weather events have caused serious health and social problems across Europe. During the summer heat waves of 2003 across Europe, France recorded an excess of over 14,000 deaths contributed to heat-related causes. Other countries such… read more… data has been proposed as one method of surveillance that may be used to alert public health authorities during … extreme weather conditions when heat-related morbidity may be higher than expected. Previous studies have shown … electronic medical records for emergency department visits, are already in existence in many of the countires …